On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Rich Rutkowski wrote:
> Have been using both the 8.1-405.jdbc3.jar driver (thick client) and
> also the pg73jdbc3.jar(server side) driver. I have been receiving
> messages from the Application Server, Sun's Platform Edition 8.1,
> regarding non-XA resources. If we read your site correctly the
> postgresql-8.2dev-503.jdbc3.jar driver has partial support for XA
> resources. We are not interleaving transactions at this point so it
> should work. However, we notice that there is the sequence "dev" in the
> driver name. Is the "dev" driver a new code base as compared to the
> -405 driver or an extension to add the XA capability? Our application
> is mission critical and stability is very important.
The -dev release is indeed the development release, but nothing new has
happened regarding XA support in the 8.2 series, so the code should be
identical to the 8.1 release. So for your purposes you should use the 8.1
driver as it has the latest XA code and is more stable than the -dev
series.
Kris Jurka